Community Read, Fall 2008: 

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

 

WEBSITES:

Links to Marjane Satrapi

Listen to NPR Fresh Air Interview with Marjane Satrapi

Random House Readers Guide to Persepolis

ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) Internet Resources: Comic Books and Graphic Novels

 

BOOKS for further exploration:

Foreigner by Nahid Rachlin

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi

The Iranians: Persia: Islam and the Soul of a Nation by Sandra Mackey

Inside Iran by Mark Edward Harris

Journey from the Land of No by Roya Hakakian

Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni

 

A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry by Michael C. Hillman

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai

My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad

Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Space Between Our Footsteps by Naomi Shihab Nye

We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs by Nasrin Alavi

Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East by Habeeb Saloum

 

...by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

Embroideries

Chicken with Plums